1) Big bribery probe,1980-81 2) Bribery scandal, 1980-81 3) Carter-era FBI bribery probe 4) Carter-era political scandal 5) DC scandal of 1980 6) Famed FBI sting 7) Famed FBI sting operation 8) FBI sting 9) Infamous FBI sting 10) Memorable FBI sting 11) Notable FBI sting operation 12) Noted FBI sting operation
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Abscam—sometimes written ABSCAM—was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sting operation that took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The two-year investigation was directed from the FBI`s office in Hauppauge, New York, and was under the supervision of Assistant Director Neil J. Welch, who headed the bureau`s New York division, and .....
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ABSCAM was an investigation conducted by the FBI from 1978 to 1980 into corruption within the US Congress. FBI agents posed as an Arab sheikh and his associates and filmed government officials accepting bribes. Seven Congressmen and several state and local officials were subsequently charged and convicted of bribery, corruption, conspiracy and rela...
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the code name for an FBI investigation (1978–80) of bribery, involving members of Congress.
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